Originally published at: http://www.sitepoint.com/laravel-4-laravel-5-simple-upgrade-guide/
Laravel 5 is already out, but the fear of change is taking everyone. We keep hearing people complaining about some radical changes. Like, why this new folder structure? Will my application break if I do a composer update
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In this article, we’re going to look at how to migrate your existing Laravel 4 application to Laravel 5 and understand the new folder structure.
Installation
My existing Laravel 4 application is a demo from a previous article about using Google Analytics API. The application doesn’t have too much code, but it will do the job for our tutorial.
Let’s first install Laravel 5 on our computer and create a temporary folder to hold our Laravel 4 version of the application.
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